News

The Department of Drama and Speech Communication is happy to announce that by September 2015 all three departmental units will have new curricular initiatives launched. These changes foster our commitment to cross-unit collaboration in teaching and research.  They also invite students to actively consider undertaking a double major – in Speech Communication and Drama – with a Digital Arts Communication (DAC) minor.  And they allow students in all Arts programs to consider a DAC minor.

Here are the highlights:

Professors Vershawn (Vay) Young and Jennifer Simpson recently addressed a few of the main ideas in their recently published books at a department colloquium held on January 23^rd, 2015.

Jennifer S Simpson

4:00 p.m.

University of Waterloo Bookstore

To support DAC329/ SPCOM 329: Digital Presentations, the Department of Drama and Speech Communication is pleased to sponsor the community public speaking event, Ignite Waterloo 15 on November 26, 2014.  All members of the University community are in

Last week, the University of Waterloo announced the LITE Grant recipients.

What happens when you take music, theatre and projection and put it into a computing space?  That is what we are about to find out.

Post-Doctoral Fellow Toby Malone is a busy man this summer.  He is the supervising dramaturg on the Department's productions, both of which require preparation and work during the spring term.  He is prepping his two new courses - DRAMA 409 (Theatre Criticism) and DRAMA 371 (Theatre History).  He is the Dramaturg for King Lear and A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Stratford Festival.

In early April, the Speech Communication course Art, Communication and Culture, taught by Shana MacDonald, launched the department's inaugural pop-up art exhibition "unLearn: Confronting the Known" in the ML main floor hallway leading to the Theatre of the Arts.

G&G Carpentry, a set-building and carpentry business owned and operated by staff member Gill Lesperance, has received its first public accolades.

Associate Dean and long-time Drama faculty member, Bill Chesney is not relaxing this summer.  He is designing four out of the five shows in the Lighthouse Festival Theatre's 35th anniversary season.